Baptist Leveson-Gower (3 April 1703 – 4 August 1782) was a British Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons for 34 years from 1727 to 1761.
Leveson-Gower was the fourth son of John Leveson Gower, 1st Baron Gower, MP, and his wife Lady Catherine Manners, daughter of John Manners, 1st Duke of Rutland.
[2] At the 1727 British general election Leveson-Gower was returned as a Tory Member of Parliament at both Amersham and Newcastle-Under-Lyme, and chose to sit for Newcastle-under-Lyme on his family’s interest.
He was returned for Newcastle-under-Lyme in a contest at the 1734 British general election and unopposed at the 1741 British general election.
[1] Leveson-Gower was returned at the 1754 British general election and was classed as a member of the Bedford group, then in opposition.